One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.

Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by "chlorophyll," which at first sounds very instructive; but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called "green leaf," we should see more precisely how far we had got.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.